Most up and coming city? (Los Angeles, Long Beach: foreclosures, lofts, condos)

[Winston Smith]

Originally Posted by adysmom

Is their really any place in Los Angeles that is up and coming and getting better and not worse. Los Angeles & SoCal is on a down hill trend and has been for years.

I don't agree with this. My experience with the L.A. area is that things go in cycles from new to worn out to bad to revitalized. Consider downtown Pasadena or Hollywood in the 80s. Look at those areas now.

Originally Posted by SanPedrodoglover

San Pedro. With a 1.2 Billion Dollar Face lift the waterfront is getting , invest there. Most coastal communities in Southern California are not even remotely affordable anymore.

Wow, that is quite an investment in San Pedro. To me, San Pedro is a diamond in the rough. So much potential there.

[ebuch]

Originally Posted by LASam

I think you may be talking about Westlake, which is south of the 101. Very little of Rampart extends into Echo Park.

Oh okay, sorry about that!

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by ebuch

Isn't Echo Park pretty rough area? I've been in the process with LAPD and rode around the Rampart area, and it seemed pretty heavy with gangs... I could be wrong and be thinking of another area, sorry if I am..

It is, or it was. At one time it was one of the nicest areas near the downtown part of the city. By the late 50s or early 60s it started a downturn but now, I have heard it is being revitalized. Like so many areas in the city and surrounding areas, if making a comeback is possible Echo Park will be on the list.

Nita

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by Winston Smith

I don't agree with this. My experience with the L.A. area is that things go in cycles from new to worn out to bad to revitalized. Consider downtown Pasadena or Hollywood in the 80s. Look at those areas now.


Wow, that is quite an investment in San Pedro. To me, San Pedro is a diamond in the rough. So much potential there.

It would be great to see San Pedro do a complete turn around.

Nita

[LASam]

Originally Posted by nmnita

It would be great to see San Pedro do a complete turn around.

Nita

With all the money being invested into it... it damn well better!

[the one]

a good example of waterfront revitalization would be Jack London Square in Oakland... and also emeryville.

[LALove24]

Inglewood...slowly but surely.

[King0fthehill]

Inglewood, eh? I wouldn't hold my breath. I know somebody who doesn't live too far from Crenshaw and Manchester (off of Lime St? or is it Key St?), aka the "Heart of Inglewood," and that area has all the traits of a typical ghetto; gangs, noise, ugly, multifamily apartment buildings, few amenities besides liquor stores on the nearest main drag, lots of nihilism, etc. Definitely a real pit. And it doesn't even have the things about LA ghetto nabes that are "cool," or even worth romanticizing able things about a ghetto, like cultural diversity, yummy ethnic food, charming architecture or mass transit.

It'd be hard to see that area improving, let alone becoming 'hip' or 'up and coming', in the near future, if not for a long time.

[LALove24]

i see your point KOtH,

but the city didn't win an All-America City Prize 2009 for nothing. Sure there are bad parts that will take a decade or two more to fix. But gentrification has begun. Especially north Inglewood, it has very expensive homes. I am seeing a lot of progress. There is still tons to fix, but i see positive change every day. Inglewood will be back.

[King0fthehill]

Yes. But then again, it was to be expected that the northern parts of da 'wood would eventually become Ladera Heights - South

I also like some of the older (usually Country English/English Manor-style) apartments and Spanish cottages just to the east, off of Crenshaw between Florence and Manchester.